A liar should have a good memory.
- Quintilian Quote

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
- Quintilian Quote

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
- Quintilian Quote

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
- Quintilian Quote

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
- Quintilian Quote

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
- Quintilian Quote

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
- Quintilian Quote

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
- Quintilian Quote

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
- Quintilian Quote

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
- Quintilian Quote

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
- Quintilian Quote